Brands barbie, fisher price and moi, that is mattel to find out how his company s fortunes are being revived. Wherever you are joining around the world, once again hello and welcome to the programme. It is a billion dollar industry driven by creativity and innovation with a global reach and a diverse market. The toy industry is forecast to reach $302 billion in sales by 2030 and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we have seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, big name companies reported sales have started to slip back once again. Let s look at some of those numbers. Local toy sales reached $108. 7 billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022 with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional growth linked to the pandemic. But acr
On the app. So it was kind of a laundry list of issues. More broadly, mike, were you surprised that this happened in france? so, this is. . . One of the fascinating aspects of this case is, you know, it s a big deal in any sort of country at this point, i believe, to really take under arrest the ceo of a major tech company, especially one used by almost a billion people, that telegram is. I think the distinction that s important here is that the arrest was made not under eu sort of broader laws, but specifically under french sort ofjurisdiction. And i also think that other tech ceos are looking at that and what that means for travel across different countries, not. . . I think durov is a different case because of how uncooperative he has been with different countries over the years but it s something to look at. Related to that, my bbc news colleague joe tidy has been reporting in the last few hours that telegram refuses to join international programmes aimed at detecting and removin
Welcome back. 11:00 a. M. Eastern, 8:00 a. M. I m pacific. I m jose diazbalart. We begin this hour with the latest on the race for the white both vice president harris both vice president harris and former former president trump gave duelling newsmaking interviews on the campaign trail. It was the vice president s first sitdown tv interview since ascending to the top of the ticket, sitting along side her running mate minnesota governor tim walz. She was asked about her policy evolutions on a number of issues including immigration and fracking, saying her values have not changed. The vice president brushing off trump s personal attacks on her. She also talked about the moment she learned president biden was leaving the race last month. The phone rang and it was joe biden, and he told me what he had decided to do. And i asked him, are you sure? and he said, yes. And and that s how i learned about and what about the it. And what about the endorsement? did you ask did you ask for it? he wa
Critics of her shifting policy positions on some key issues. I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. Also, in an nbc exclusive interview, former president trump said he would greenlit billions of dollars in federal funding for ivf, if he wins in november. We are paying for that treatment, all americans that need it, so we will be paying for the treatment or we are going to be mandating that the insurance company pay. Trump, also defends his arlington cemetery appearance that has been the subject of major scrutiny. And we have your labor day weekend covered from the latest on travel at the airport and highways, to the new growing threat from mosquitoes raising concerns for families across the country. I m ryan nobles and for andrea mitchell as kamala harris is off the campaign trail after defending pass policy shifts in her first wide ranging interview since taking the top of the democratic presidential
A federal court. And later, it could be the busiest labor day travel weekend ever, with millions hitting the roads and skies. What you need to know to navigate the rush. Good morning, 10:00 a. M. Eastern, 7:00 a. M. Pacific, i m jose diazbalart in for ana cabrera. We begin with vice president harris s first interview alongside her running mate tim walz. Harris defended the biden administration. She centered her policy vision on optimism, saying americans want to turn the page. I m talking about an era that started about a decade ago where there s some suggestion, warped, i believe it to be, that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of where i believe most americans are, which is to believe that the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up. Let s discuss this with nbc news senior white house correspondent, gabe gutierrez, msnbc host and former spokesperson for vice president harris, symone sanderstownsend, and the disp